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- May 25, 2005 at 10:50 pm #1009Waters2Participant
what is pleiotropy???and also Epistosis????Can anyone tell me???pls
- May 25, 2005 at 11:07 pm #23117EmmVeePeeParticipant
Pleiotropy is when a gene has more than one phenotypic expression. There are plenty of examples, but I can’t think of any.
I assume you mean Epistasis. Epistasis is when one gene controls whether another is expressed or not. But it isn;t like dominance and recessive genes, where the dominant one trumps the recessive.
- May 26, 2005 at 12:29 pm #23135victorParticipant
I can think that Epistasis is some kinda dominance that expressed when two or more alleles which controlling one phenotype (usually color phenotype) meet each other (when two organisms are mated). In this matter Epistasis can be detected when two dominant alleles meet each other but only one of them is shown as phenotype. In this case another allele which is ‘beaten’ by the Epistasis allele is called hipostasis.
- May 26, 2005 at 10:18 pm #23228Waters2Participant
I think i get a bit of image of it but can u give me a related website so i can know more about it….. 🙂
- May 29, 2005 at 11:29 pm #23376thank.darwinParticipant
These sites should help…
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mccl … endel6.htm
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mccl … endel5.htm
- June 1, 2005 at 12:17 pm #23516Waters2Participant
thank u for ur information…
- June 4, 2005 at 3:22 pm #23749kandarp shahParticipant
as my knowledge i have found that One gene that causes many different physical traits such as multiple disease symptoms.
- October 3, 2005 at 10:40 pm #30340jadskyParticipant
go to http//www.yahoo.com and search for your help chances are you’ll get answers
- June 26, 2009 at 10:31 pm #91579bortz99Participant
Sickle-cell disease is a good example of pleiotrophy, the carrier of this recessive trait will have a phenotype of lets say Ss but they do not have Sickle-cell symptoms like the SS phenotype. However even in the Ss type some sickle-cells are created this is why they are resistant to malaria.
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